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The European Military Airworthiness Authorities Forum 

Date 

Military Airworthiness Conference 

6-7 th July 2011 Warsaw 

Jan Plevka,Ph.D, 

MAWA Chairman 

Armaments Directorate 

NAME 

Position 

jan.plevka@eda.europa.eu

Presentation outline 

• Background 

• Formation of the Military Airworthiness Authorities Forum in EDA 

• Ministerial decision (the mandate) and the Airworthiness Roadmap 

• European harmonisation approach (JAA-EASA to start with airworthiness) 

• European military airworthiness systems – MAWA structure 

• MAWA Forum progress to date 

• Future aspirations 

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Changes in EDA management 


Cooperation – in which environment? 

Copyright © 2008 Center for Security Studies, F. Haydon 







• European military airworthiness system – MAWA structure 




EDA & Airworthiness 

• First signals were the international integration of air 

industry - common multinational projects ( Typhoon, 

NH90, A400M….) 

• Number of international activities for coordination of 

military airworthiness authorities started in 2003-4, 

EMAAG, FINAS, OCCAR, JMAAN, ETAP... 

• November 2008 is an important milestone in EU 

military Airworthiness history: 

EU Ministers of Defence approved the 

establishment of Military AirWorthiness 

Authorities (MAWA) Forum and endorsed the 

European Military Airworthiness Roadmap 

• Civil aviation recognised the need for harmonisation much 

earlier than the military (sovereignty, competitions, 

limitations in defence technology export ....) 

• ICAO 1944, FAA, JAA, EASA … 

• Military in Europe recognized certain drawbacks of the 

fragmented approach mainly after the geopolitical 

changes 


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What anticipated improvements? 

Enabling cost 

reductions 

Accelerating 

multinational 

projects 

Shortening the 

definition phase 

Enabling 

cross border 

maintenance of 

military a/c 

Improving 

interoperability

Harmonising Military Airworthiness 

What are the expected benefits of working together ? 

• Civil & Military aviation safety is paramount, 

• Military-military & civil-military cooperation, 

• Reducing time & costs for new aircraft development 

• Helping to improve competiveness of EDTIB 

• Common approach to maintenance and repair 

• Better possibility for outsourcing of maintenance and 

repair 

• Cross border maintenance 

• Common licensing and educational schemes for 

maintenance personnel 

• Mutual Recognition between the different authorities 











SB decisions for EU Military Airworthiness 

• April 2008- National Armaments Steering Board 

(SB) tasked EDA to prepare for the creation of an 

EU-wide forum for Military Airworthiness 

Authorities (MAWA) 

• Nov 2008-EDA Steering Board (SB) decision of 

MODs for the establishment of a forum for Military 

Airworthiness Authorities (MAWA) with a view to 

developing an EU-wide regulatory framework 

• The SB also approved a high level Military Road 

Map with the main objectives for airworthiness 

harmonisation 

• Nov 2009-Defence Ministers’ Political Declaration 

for the timely development and early 

implementation of the harmonised European 

Military Airworthiness Requirements (EMARs) into 

national regulations 


The MAWA Roadmap Objectives 

Common regulatory framework 

Common certification processes 

Common approach to organisational 

approvals 

Common certification/design codes 

Common approach to preservation of 

airworthiness 

Arrangements for mutual recognition 

Formation of a European Military Joint 

Airworthiness Authorities Organisation 


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Current work associated with the Roadmap 

objectives 

1. 

Common regulatory framework 

Basic Framework 

EMAR 1 Definitions 

2. 

Common certification processes 

EMAR 21 AMC GM 

3. 

Common approach to organisational 

approvals 

EMARs 

21 145 147 M 

AMC 

+GM 

4. 

Common certification/design codes 

EMACC 

FS 

EMACC 

GM 

5. 

Common approach to preservation of 

airworthiness 

EMARs 

145 66 M 

AMC 

+GM 

6. 

Arrangements for mutual recognition 

Question set on EMARs 

implementation 

Mutual 

Recognition 

7. 

Formation of a European Military Joint 

Airworthiness Authorities org. 

FS 

Go 

Concept 

decision 











Determining an appropriate 

airworthiness structure 


Regulation (EC) 1702/2003 on 

Airworthiness and Environmental 

Certification 

Guidance Material 

Part 21 

Certification Specifications 

AMC 20 

AMC 21 

CS 25 

CS 34 

CS 36 

CS E 

CS P 

CS APU 

CS AWO 

CS ETSO 

CS Definitions 

CS 22 

CS 23 

CS 27 

CS 29 

CS VLA 

CS VLR 

Parliament and Council 

AMC & 

Guidance 

Material 

Part M, 

145,66,147 

EU MoD 

European Commission

Main elements of airworthiness 

Process 

Dependencies 

Declarations 

Cert. basis 

Approved : 

MDOA 

Production org. 

Maintenance org. 

Maint. Training org. 

N-MAAs 

Regulatory 

Authorities 

Oversights & 

Compliances 

Complete 

European 

military 

airworthiness 

solution 

EMARs & 

National 

Regulation 

AW data exch. 

National 

Airworthiness 

Solutions 

Project teams 

Release to service 

Mil TCH 

Continued AWM 

Continuing AWM 

a/c provider 

a/c operator 

a/c industry 


How it’s fits together 

Process 

Dependencies 

Declarations 

Cert. basis 

Approved : 

MDOA 

Production org. 

Maintenance org. 

Maint. Training org. 

N-MAAs 

Regulatory 

Authorities 

Oversights & 

Compliances 

Complete 

European 

military 

airworthiness 

solution 

EMARs & 

National 

Regulation 

AW data exch. 

National 

Airworthiness 

Solutions 

Project teams 

Release to service 

Mil TCH 

Continued AWM 

Continuing AWM 

a/c provider 

a/c operator 

a/c industry 











MAWA Forum approach 

• MAWA Forum is made up of representatives from National Military 

Airworthiness Authorities (or equivalent) 

• MAWA Forum has no authority on airworthiness and Nations retain 

their sovereignty in this area 

• To meet the Roadmap objectives common European Military 

Airworthiness Requirements (EMARs) must be developed 

• Implementation of EMARs remains a national decision although 

political declaration has been made (Nov 2009) 

• The European Joint Military Airworthiness Authorities Organisation 

(EMJAAO) once set up can address the common harmonisation 

tasks as required. 


Civil regulatory structure 

ICAO (Chicago Convention) 

ICAO Doc 7300, Chicago, December 7. 1944 + 18 Annexes 

Basic Regulation 216/2008 


Airworthiness and 

Environmental Certification 

Regulation (EC) 2042/2003 

on Continuing Airworthiness 

Annex 

Part 21 

Certification 

Specification 

Annex I 

Part M 

CAMO 

Annex II 

Part 145 

Maint. Org. 

Annex III 

Part 66 

Certifying 

Staff 

Annex IV 

Part 147 

Training 

Organisation 


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And the associated Mil. regulatory 

structure 

ICAO (Chicago Convention) 

EDA SB MoDs decision Nov 2008 

ICAO Doc 7300, Chicago, December 7. 1944 + 18 Annexes 

Basic Regulation 216/2008 

MAWA Basic Framework Document 2009 


Airworthiness and 

Environmental Certification 

Regulation (EC) 2042/2003 

on Continuing Airworthiness 

National Military Airworthiness Regulations 

Annex 

Certification Annex I Annex II 

Annex III Annex IV 

Part 21 

Specification Part M Part 145 

Part 66 Part 147 

EMAR 21 EMACC EMAR M EMAR 145 

CAMO Maint. Org. 

Certifying EMAR 66 EMAR Training 147 

Staff Organisation 


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MAWA governance 

EDA SB 

MoDs 

Political Level 

Executive Level 

Forum 

MAWA 

Forum 

Strategic Level 

TF1 

AW 

Policy 

TF2 

Initial 

Certification 

TF3 

Continuing 

AW 

TF4 

EMACC * 

Technical 

Level 

* European Military Airworthiness 

Certification Criteria 


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EDA MAWA Forum current structure 

EDA SB MODs 

MAWA Forum 

Executive level 

MAWA TF1 

Framework docs 


EMAR certifications 

Approvals & GM, AMC 


EMAR Maintenance 

+ GM, AMC 


Military certification 

criteria 

AIRWORTHINESS POLICY 

DEVELOPMENT 


EMAR -1 

Mutual recognition 

Functions of MAWA 

Commitments of NMAAs’ 

Membership Etc. 

IN & CONTINUED 

AIRWORTHINESS 

Design & manufactures 

approvals 

Military type-certificates & 

Changes to those certificates 

Airworthiness certificate 

CONTINUING 

AIRWORTHINESS 

Maintenance organisations 

approvals, CAMO, 

Housing, Facilities 

Equipment, Materials 

Data, Personnel 

Training &Training org. 

approvals. 

Quality managements 

EUROPEAN MILITARY 

CERTIFICATION 

CRITERIA (EMACC) 

Develop a harmonised tool to 

assist NMAAs or joint project 

teams to define the certification 

basis for new military air 

systems. 












MAWA TF1 main activities 

• The development and update of Basic Framework 

Document (BFD) based on JAA Cyprus agreement but 

taking into account military needs 

• To develop and propose the principles (including essential 

requirements) for European harmonised military 

airworthiness system 

• To agree on the level of NMAA commitments and closer 

co-operation on the topic of military airworthiness 

• To develop and propose mutual recognition arrangements 

between NMAAs 

• To develop and coordinate EMAR 1 – Definitions. 

Chairman Mr. John Allan 

(pMS – BE,DE,FR,IT,NL,SE,UK) 


MAWA Forum (BFD) 

• Version 1.1 of the BFD circulated 

in 2009 

• Positive responses received from 

18 pMS 

• Last agreement received from EE 

authority (Jan 2011 AI_7.1) 

• No negative responses received 

• Version 1.2 is ready and 1.3 to be 

prepared for issue in 2011 

• Considered as a living document 

• Annual updates may be organised 

and approved if necessary by 


• Only major change in principles of 

BFD will require to repeat the 

formal consultation with pMS 

MAAs’ 

NO CODE PMS THE AIRWORTHINESS AUTHORITY Comments 

1 AT Austria Minister of Defence and Sports:KATTER 

2 BE Kingdom 

ofBelgium 

Head of Aeronautical Systems Section 

Col. Michael OCULA 

3 BG 

4 CY 

5 CZ CzechRepublic Director of Military Aviation Authority CZE 

Col. Peter BROUCEK 

6 DE Germany MOD Air Force Staff II 1 

Bernd Jungkunz 

7 EE Estonia Commander of the Air Force 

Br. General Valeri Saar 

8 EL Greece Hellenic Air Force General Staff /Directorate C1 

Brig. Gen (Eng.) Con. Economou 

9 ES Spain Head of Military Airworthiness Area MoD Spain 

Juan R. de Miguel Velasco 

10 FI Finland Director Military Aviation Authority FI 

LtCol Pavo Heinonen 

11 FR France Chairman of Airworthiness interministerial 

commission, Gen. Vincent Tesniere & 

Head of Air system architecture technical field 

Yves Colin 

12 HU Hungary Director of National Transport Authority 

Josef Vago 

13 IE 

14 IT Italy The General Director 

Gen.Isp. G.A. ESPOSITO Ing. Domenico 

15 LT 

16 LU 

17 LV Latvia State Secretary 

Janis SARTS 

18 MT 

19 NL The Nederlands Gen (ret) Peter Vorderman 

Director of the Military Aviation Authority 

20 PL 

21 PT Portugal The Chief cabinet of Portuguese Air Force Chief of 

Staff Amandio Manuel Fernandes Miranda 

GEN/PILAV 

22 RO 

23 SE Sweden Head of the Swedish Military Aviation Safety 

Inspectorate, andInspector Flight Safety 

Col. Thomas Karlsson 

24 SI Slovenia Head of Military Aviation Authority 

Col. Michael KLAVZAR 

25 SK Slovakia Director Military Aviation AuthoritySK 

Col. Sona MATUNAKOVA 

26 UK United 

Kingdom 

Head of Air Systems 

Mr. John ALLAN 


IS 

NO 

SE 

FL 

The EDA Member States: 

27 EU States 

-Denmark 

EE 

IR 

DK 

RU 

LV 

LT 

BY 

RU 

KZ 

UK 

NL 

PL 

PT 

ES 

FR 

BE 

LU 

CH 

DE 

CZ 

SK 

AU 

HU 

RO 

SL HR 

BA RS 

BG 

IT 

ME KO 

FYROM 

MD 

UA 

TR 

GE 

AM 

AZ 

IR 

AL 

GR 

SY 

IQ 

MA 

DZ 

TN 

MT 

CY 

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Task Force 2 

EMAR 21 + AMC & GM 

first chairman LtCol Rik van Zwol, second Mr. David Barker 

current chairman Mr. Paul Robinson 

(pMS – BE,CZ,DE,FR,IT,NL,ES,SE,UK & PT) 

EMAR 21 Section A in consultation phase 

• Subpart A General provisions 

• Subpart B Military type-certificates & Military restricted-TC 

• Subpart D Changes to Military TC & Military restricted-TC 

• Subpart E Military supplemental type-certificates 

• Subpart H Airworthiness certificates 

• Subpart J Military design organisation approval 

• Subpart K Parts and appliances 

• Subpart Q Identification of specific parts and appliances 

Question set for EMAR 21 

EMAR 1 (definitions) participation 

EMAR - Acceptable Means of Compliance (AMC) and Guidance 

Material (GM) 



Task Force 3 

EMARs maintenance 

first chairman LtCol Marc Latour 

Current chairman LtCol Rigel Hebman (pMS – BE,DE,ES,FR,IT,NL,SE,UK, Obs. PO 

& cM.SK) 

• EMAR 145 (A&) – approved 

Maintenance 

Facilities 

EMARs in developing phase: 

EMAR 1 (Definitions) 

EMAR M (Continuing AW) 

EMAR 147 (Tech training org.) 

EMAR Part 66 (Qualifications of 

maintenance personnel) 

EMARs related MMCs & GMs 

Continuing Airworthiness 

Personnel 

Requirements 

Equipment, 

Tools and 

Material 

Maintenance Data and 

Records 

Quality 

System 



Task Force 4 

EMACC (HndBk) 

First chairman LtCol Alessio GRASO 

Based on existing certification criteria (Mil Hdbk. 516B, DEF std + civil codes…) 

• Development of military EMACC for future military aircraft programmes or major 

modifications. 

• Furthermore, platform unique criteria (special conditions) need to be added to fully 

address the safety aspects of unique military configurations. 

• EMACC addresses airworthiness certification 

criteria to be used in the determination of 

airworthiness of all manned and unmanned, 

fixed and rotary wing air vehicle systems. 

• It is a foundation and tailorable document to be 

used to define the air systems airworthiness 

certification basis. 

• This document will cross reference relevant 

military and civil requirements. 

Current chairman LtCol Carlo Rubino (pMS – DE,FR,IT,NL,SE,UK & PT) 


EDA MAWA roadmap main activities 

• Following the MAWA Rulemaking process the Forum approved 

the EMAR 145 sections A&B on 19 January 2011 

• EMAR 21 section A pMS consultation since 17 June 2011.This 

will be followed about 18-20 similar documents 











Future aims 

• To keep the momentum and continue in the timely development of 

EMARs and associated AMCs and GMs 

• The main focus for National Military Airworthiness Authorities 

(NMAA) will be EMAR implementation 

• EMAR compliance declaration process by pMS has yet to be 

agreed 

• Further work is required to define the mutual recognition basis and 

process between NMAAs 

• Mutual recognition will be key to unlocking the benefits of the 

EMARs 

• An important milestone of the MAWA Forum will be to form a 

European Joint Military Airworthiness Authorities Organisation 

(EMJAAO) 

• The ultimate goal is to have a seamless harmonised military 

airworthiness system taking into account military environments 


MAWA interrelationship 

Flag 

State 

Austria 

Belgium 

Bulgaria 

Cyprus 

NATO FINAS and 

USARs groups 

Czech Republic 

Denmark 

Estonia 

Finland 

France 

Germany 

Greece 

Hungary 

Ireland 

Italy 

Latvia 

Lithuania 

Luxembourg 


database 

for sharing 

national 

and IO 

regulations 




EMAR Part 21 

EDA SB MODs 


Exec 


EMAR Maintenance 


Certification crit. 


Common 

EMARs 

Malta 

Netherlands 

Poland 

Portugal 

Romania 

Slovakia 

Slovenia 

Spain 

Sweden 

United Kingdom 

JMAAN 

ASD 

US 

AUS 

NOR 

CH 

Implementation Phase 


Important Events 

MAWA Conference Warsaw 

July 5-7 2011 

EDA-SE Conference 

Oct 2009 

MAWA/EXEC F08 EDA 

Sep 15 2010 

CZP WS Olomouc 

5-6 Jun 2009 

MAWA F07 Portugal 

May 26-27 2010 

Next event ? 


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